How does peerdrive compare to webtorrent ?
File management support
Peerdrive has built-in file management. File management exactly looks and feels like file manager in your favorite operating system. You can browse remote folders, drag and drop files and folders to/from your root view. All operations are supported which you are used to. However, some features are not supported limited by HTML5 file system capabilities.
Media play capabilities
Webtorrent supports playing MP4 files. peerdrive also supports playing fragmented mp4 files, in addition to mp4, peerdrive also supports webm files. MP3 files and folders can be dragged and dropped onto our inbuilt audio player to start playing.
File preview support
In addition to the media playing capabilities, peerdrive also supports opening multiple popular file formats. Source code files are displayed highlighting respective syntax. Images can be previewed right in the browser with builtin image viewer. Also supported are PDF files. We will be adding other popular formats in future.